Gaurav Verma

Own end-to-end strategy for Hitachi’s “Platform of Platforms” (PoP): a modular, enterprise-grade GenAI framework that lets customers build, govern, and scale AI workloads securely in any environment. I translate AI market trends, signals and deep technical complexity into clear roadmaps and go-to-market (GTM) motions, orchestrate globally distributed Agile squads, and deliver measurable business value through AI governance, observability, and friction-free developer experiences.

• Direct 10+ component teams (India, Ukraine, UK), synchronizing Product Owners, architects, AI engineers and MLOps to hit sprint goals, manage risk, and uphold release hygiene.
• Shape and execute GenAI PoP’s (Platform of Platforms) roadmap, converting market research and client feedback into Themes → Epics → Features that prioritize governance, security, multimodality, and extensibility.
• Champion a plug-and-play architecture that integrates hyperscaler services (AWS, Azure, GCP) while supporting customer-hosted LLMs and on-prem installs.
• Lead Embed Responsible-AI guardrails, model-observability dashboards, and audit trails to maintain alignment with data-privacy and ethical-AI standards to under Enterprise Readiness Initiative of the platform
• Designed tiered offerings and Product Packaging (PoP-Core, PoP-Enterprise, industry accelerators) with usage-based and subscription pricing models.
• Built launch playbooks, competitive positioning, ROI calculators, and demo collateral adopted by global Sales & Marketing.
• Drove joint-solution GTM motions with AWS Marketplace and Hitachi Vantara, expanding reach into financial-services and industrial verticals.

Demonstrated expertise in spearheading and executing comprehensive financial reporting and data platform initiatives, leveraging product management principles and data platform components to achieve business objectives.

• Played a pivotal role in defining the scope, objectives, and product strategy for the Financial Reporting Platform (FRP), ensuring alignment with business needs and customer expectations.
• Effectively collaborated with cross-functional teams, including finance, operations, IT, and UX designers, to gather requirements, analyze data sources, and design a user-centric FRP interface.
• Partnered with Japanese stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze data sources, and design a user-centric FRP interface that aligns with Japanese business culture and preferences.
• Championed the digital transformation of management accounting reporting by automating Excel processes, utilizing data lakes and data warehouses, and streamlining reporting workflows.
• Prioritized mobile accessibility by designing a responsive and user-friendly mobile interface for executives, enabling anywhere, anytime access to insights.
• Implemented cost-reduction measures by leveraging data governance tools to streamline reporting processes, establishing automated data pipelines, and optimizing resource utilization.
• Fostered effective stakeholder communication by doing regular workshops with Executives and updating CFOs on progress, conducting training sessions on the FRP's capabilities, and gathering feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Mapped out a comprehensive roadmap for future expansion, identifying potential business unit integrations, assessing scalability requirements, and incorporating data platform components to support future growth.
• Established performance measurement frameworks by implementing relevant KPIs, conducting regular assessments to identify areas for optimization, and utilizing data visualization tools to track progress.

• Increased customer satisfaction by resolving Product issues.
• Processed incoming bug report analyses to design software update roadmaps.
• Coordinated innovative strategies to accomplish marketing objectives and boost long-term profitability.
• Increased new client acquisition through targeted initiatives.
• Provided training and support to sales team members.
• Liaised with sales and marketing team to collect customer feedback, incorporating into subsequent production runs and development lifecycles.
• Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer interest data.
• Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.

• Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
• Maintained tactical control of product budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
• Managed benchmarks, product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluation.
• Skilled at developing and exercising cross-functional influence, translating between business owners and functional/technical teams
• Directed planning, budgeting, vendor selection and quality assurance efforts.
• Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
• Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer data.
• Managed Product development cycle, including prototyping designs and coordinating mass production.
• Defined and analyzed metrics to measure product performance.
• Developed product documentation to communicate and align key components of upcoming features and products to internal teams.
• Collected customer requirements, directed testing and conducted continuous evaluations to make proactive adjustments to marketing approaches.
• Liaised with clients to develop deep understanding of business needs and current market landscape

• Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
• Assigned tasks to associates, staffed projects and updated all involved parties to enhance optimal business flow
• Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings and recommending changes.
• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
• Streamlined techniques to support agile methodology implementations.
• Defined and analyzed metrics to measure product performance.
• Broke project into epics and implementable user stories.
• Interacted with internal stakeholders as voice of customer.
• Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.
• Gain fundamental understanding of full user experience, understanding critical paths and dependencies from key stakeholders
• Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
• Owned and prioritized product backlog.
• Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.

• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Reviewed files, records and other documents to obtain business information and key data informing responses to development requests.
• Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and propose options to rectify operational inefficiencies.
• Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to align with changing business needs.
• Met with stakeholders to establish favorable business relationships and support mutually beneficial interests.
• Assessed impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders and evaluated potential areas for improvement.
• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
• Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.